Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government's news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13, which would have made her ineligible to be on the team that won a gold medal this week.

Women's gymnastics is the figure skating of the Summer Olympics, so it should come as no surprise that in the first few days of the Beijing Games, the sport is dogged by controversy. But this isn't any old run-of-the-mill, Bela's-blowing-a-gasket-over-a-tenth-of-a-point brouhaha. This one would be worth a 10, if there still were 10s in the sport.

Women's gymnastics is the figure skating of the Summer Olympics, so it should come as no surprise that in the first few days of the Beijing Games, it's dogged by controversy. But this isn't any old run-of-the-mill, Bela's-blowing-a-gasket-over-a-tenth-of-a-point bruhaha. This one would be worth a 10, if there still were 10s in the sport.

Chellsie Memmel walked with a deliberate step Thursday. "I have to walk with my foot turned out a little bit nothing that I can't handle," the U.S. women's gymnast said a few hours after podium training at the National Indoor Stadium. "It's not going to hamper my bars performance for the team."